{"id":183968,"date":"2012-09-20T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/20\/whenever-you-talk-about-charles-murray\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T03:04:00","slug":"whenever-you-talk-about-charles-murray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/20\/whenever-you-talk-about-charles-murray\/","title":{"rendered":"Whenever You Talk About Charles Murray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The author of any number of works, most notably <i>The Bell Curve<\/i>, which espouse the same thing, it&#8217;s the fault of those n*****s.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Bill Black <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2012\/09\/bill-black-romney-dooms-his-candidacy-by-doing-the-full-murray.html\">discusses how Mitt Romney destroying his campaign is fully embracing the ideology of Murray<\/a>, and in the process gets in some zingers against Charles Murray:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Charles Murray\u2019s newest book:  Coming Apart: The State of White America proves two classic truths.  First, it is impossible to compete with self-parody.  Second, be careful what you ask for; for you may receive it.  Charles Murray asked right-wing plutocrats (he dismissed left-wing plutocrats as disloyal to their class and to capitalism) to drop what he derided as \u201cpolitical correctness\u201d and denounce Americans who received governmental support as immoral failures.  Murray is a vigorous supporter and flatterer of Mitt Romney, claiming that the fact that he became wealthy at Bain should make him a \u201cslam dunk\u201d for the presidency.  Murray\u2019s reasoning is so crude that he announces a new doctrine \u2013 the divine right of CEOs to govern America.  \u201cWho better to be president of the greatest of all capitalist nations than a man who got rich by being a brilliant capitalist?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">No need to hold elections; simply make whoever tops the Forbes list of wealthiest people the president.  Think of the competitive incentives that rule would create.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a nice take-down, but it omits a crucial fact about Charles Murray, one that should be the lead item on any mention of him.<\/p>\n<p>You see, as a teen, he <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Murray_(author)#Early_life_and_education\">burnt a cross next to a police station<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has claimed that he did not know what it meant, as a high school senior in 1960.  <\/p>\n<p>The entire output of his professional career naturally follows from this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of any number of works, most notably The Bell Curve, which espouse the same thing, it&#8217;s the fault of those n*****s. Well, Bill Black discusses how Mitt Romney destroying his campaign is fully embracing the ideology of Murray, and in the process gets in some zingers against Charles Murray: Charles Murray\u2019s newest book: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}